The Eternal Souls All Around Us

About every ten seconds, on average about 26 people die. By extrapolating from various statistics, including death rates and world populations and religious ...

The Joys in Heaven Go on Forever

This world and its history are prelude and foretaste; all the sunrises and sunsets, symphonies and rock concerts, feasts and friendships are but whispers. ...

Actress Jessica Alba Rejects Hell and God's Judgment

The magazine Vanity Fair published an article on the actress Jessica Alba, which had the following paragraph on Alba's faith and views on God:

Alba's ...

Grim Reaper Won't Get the Last Laugh

Bob Mankoff is the cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine. His jobs is a laugh-a-minute. The New Yorker has published more than 80,000 cartoons since ...

Life List or Bucket List—Do We Need One?

A life list or a bucket list—the basic idea has been around ever since the fifth century B.C., when Herodotus' History sent Greeks eagerly across ...

World Death Rate Holds Steady At 100 Percent

The satirical site The Onion ran a humorous (note: fictional) article with a biting truth. The article was titled "World Death Rate Holding Steady ...

Musician Jerry Lee Lewis Ponders the Afterlife

"Jerry Lee Lewis makes no apologies for his life," said Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian newspaper. He was described as "the rock 'n ...

Actor Mark Ruffalo's Lesson in Mortality

In 2001, just as his first child was about to be born, actor Mark Ruffalo (known for his portrayal of Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the movie The Avengers) ...

Stephen King Thinks Heaven Will Be Boring

Rolling Stone magazine interviewed Stephen King, who has spent his career writing about death. When the interviewer asked, "Do you hope to go to ...

Actor Rob Lowe on Karma

"I try to hold on to the things I believe to be good and true. Good things happen to good people. Karma is real. There is a larger, better plan for ...